What is up? I'm Grace Beverly and welcome back to Working Hard, the podcast

shared guide book on how to improve your own life and achieve what you actually dreamed of doing,

because life's too short for boring podcasts and bad advice.

What is up and welcome back to Working Hard? If you just started a new job or you are just about

to, or honestly, even if you're a few months in and feeling a bit unsure about where you

stand, this episode is designed to be super useful for you. I want to talk about the first 90

days in any

role because I genuinely think that this is one of the most misunderstood and undervalued windows

in your entire career. We float into jobs after school or university with most of the time

absolutely no guidance on what actually matters once you're there. We used to like grades,

feedback, exams, clear benchmarks,

and then suddenly you're in a workplace where being good at your job is about so much more than just

doing the tasks you're hired to do or even fulfilling your job description. The people who climb

career ladders are good at problem solving, communication, situation management and

crucially making sure that the people around them understand

the value that they bring. And I really believe that if you play your first 90 days well,

you can completely change your progression at a company, regardless of what they actually

originally thought your trajectory in your role would be. And not to scare you, but if you play

these first 90 days badly, the best case is that you spend years trying to reposition yourself into the route that you want to go down, because the reality is that most of us are going to work for a long time. So we might as well learn how to do it in a way that gives us more money, more autonomy, and hopefully a little bit more enjoyment along the way by reaching the career goals you want to reach. Of course, everyone wants different things for different jobs. What I'm going to assume from this episode is that you want to progress as fast as possible, or you at least want to be able to reach the stage in your career, where you feel happy with exactly what you are doing, and you don't feel like you're necessarily working towards that. I was originally inspired to do this episode by reading the book The First 90 Days by

Michael Watkins. That's such a great read for anyone between jobs or about to start a new job,

but I also wanted to layer in what I've seen in work and in real life, both personally and

watching other people move quickly and confidently in their careers at my companies and at other

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